Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown